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Re:Low adoption of features and the sad realization by syshum on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:50AM (#24283560)
>>or used by an incredibly small percentage of users.

Sometimes it is not the number of users that need the feature but just 1 or 2 very important users... The ones that have the final say over Yes we use this, or no we do not

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Re:Low adoption of features and the sad realization by breakfastduck on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:54AM (#24283615)
Yeah that can certainly be true - unfortunately we often found that the very important users to us didn’t see us as important as we saw them, meaning we’d implement these hacky features on their request on short timescales only for them to then refuse to integrate for weeks - we could have done the feature properly had we not been pressured into getting it over the line so soon.
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Re:Low adoption of features and the sad realization by syshum on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:05PM (#24283766)
Ahh yes the old "Hurry up and wait"... been there too many times....
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